Talk:frustrate
Latest comment: 11 months ago by Hermes Thrice Great in topic Missing (Archaic) Verb Definition?
Missing noun?
[edit]Search Google Books for "the dead frustrates of diatoms and radiolaria". Equinox ◑ 18:26, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
Missing (Archaic) Verb Definition?
[edit]If you do a Google Search for the phrase "renounce, frustrate", you will find dozens of old last wills and testaments from 17th and 18th century America that use some variation of the phrase:
I do revoke, renounce, frustrate, and make void all wills by me formerly made […]".
This seems to be a different usage than "to hinder, thwart", or any of the other definitions given, meaning something more like "to cancel".
Does anyone else have any more information or input on this?